Post #1663598
2026-04-25 12:41 UTC
This is Black Thunder, a Sioux man taken around 1908. Across the 18th and 19th centuries, boundaries between Black and Native worlds were not fixed but lived through enslavement, escape, intermarriage, alliance, and shared confrontation with a nation expanding over both. Yet records rarely capture that complexity. The portrait names him but does not explain. A man made visible, a history only partially told. Library of Congress. Source: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3c07322/
#history #photography
Replies (5)
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai 2026-04-25 13:40
@Deglassco One thing I noticed he looks happy or at the very least unlike most other people he’s smiling instead of stern in the photograph
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@numodular@c.im 2026-04-25 13:43
@Deglassco One of the launching points of American artificial value, replacing organic #permaculture. The development of ultra-processed foods continues to make the medical industry more unethical Capitalism profits, while the masses - native or otherwise - pay the ultimate price.
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@pattykimura@beige.party 2026-04-25 14:56
@Deglassco He is a strikingly beautiful man.
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@disorderlyf@todon.eu 2026-04-25 15:25
@Deglassco Assuming what I was told about the significance of a headdress like that holds true here, the man was thriving as a Sioux member.
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@iamdavidobrien@mastodon.social 2026-04-25 18:45
What a beautiful man. Thank you Dr Glassco. @Deglassco